foulon
\fu.lɔ̃\
The verdict
“foulon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,772. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,772
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Artisan qui foule, qui apprête les draps et autres étoffes de laine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-foulon · foulon · French
foulon · rank #40,772 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,772
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH formèrent
Nearest frequency peer: formèrent (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « foulon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- foisonnement
foisonnement
59,232 corpus weight
- forain
forain
59,231 corpus weight
- formèrent
formèrent
59,230 corpus weight
- foulon
foulon
59,229 corpus weight
- fournisse
fournisse
59,228 corpus weight
- Francia
Francia
59,226 corpus weight
What this shows « foulon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foulon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fu.lɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « foulon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around foulon (IPA \fu.lɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,772 among 3,276 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for foulon, with forms such as "ffoulon", "foluon", and "foullon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "frelon", "fourgon", "foule", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is foulon, spelled F-O-U-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Artisan qui foule, qui apprête les draps et autres étoffes de laine.
- 2Appareil employé par les mégissiers pour le battage des peaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foulon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Envoyer des draps au foulon.
Moulin à foulon
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffoulon
- foluon
- foullon
- foulno
- foulonn
- fouoln
- fuolon
- ofulon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of foulon - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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